Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Fonte

The church of San Lorenzo dates back to the 9th century when it was first erected on the site of the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. At the end of the first millennium, the holy place was entrusted to the monks of St. Benedict, who built a monastery next to it, which became very important in the community of the time. In the early years of the 14th century, the monastery was given to the nuns of St. Clare. The church was rebuilt from the foundations between 1565 and 1574 on the initiative of the titular cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto. The external portico was added in the 17th century.

St. Peter's Basilica, founded in 442, is also known as the Eudossian Basilica after the name of its founder, Licinia Eudossia (422-493). The church has undergone numerous restorations, the most important of which were carried out by Hadrian I in 780, by Sixtus IV in 1471 and by Julius II in 1503. Other restorations were carried out in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church is best known for housing the tomb of Julius II with the famous Moses of Michelangelo .

The church of Santa Maria ai Monti was built by the architect Giacomo della Porta at the request of Gregory XIII in 1580 to celebrate the discovery of a 15th-century miraculous image of the Madonna with St. Lawrence and St. Stephen, found in the ruins of a nearby convent of Poor Clares. This image, which is still on the high altar, has been carried in procession every year since the end of April when it was found in 1579. The façade of the church was restored in 1991-1992.